WAREHAM councillor Ryan Holloway has stood down from a Dorset Council Cabinet post “for personal reasons.”

He had been Cabinet member for Corporate Development and Transformation since the Lib Dem victory in the May elections.

A brief statement from Dorset Council on Friday (8th Nov) said he would leave the post with immediate effect, adding that the leader of the council, Cllr Nick Ireland, will appoint a successor to “in due course.”

The councillor, one of two to represent Wareham, is listed as being a committee member of the shareholder committee for Care Dorset, the arms-length council owned social care business and has been a member of the Corporate Parenting Board.

He also represents the council on the Trigon Landfill Site Liaison Group and the Wytch Farm Oilfield Consultative Committee.

His interests are listed as director/shareholder of Goathorn Precisions Engineering Ltd and the owner of a property in Upton, Poole where he describes his interest as ‘landlord.’ Cllr Holloway says he has always lived in Purbeck, being raised in Sandford, starting his working life as an apprentice with a local engineering company. He served as a Wareham Town councillors for three years before being elected to Dorset Council in 2019 and then re-elected to the unitary council in May this year. He has also been a volunteer with HM Coastguard.

When appointed to the Cabinet position he wrote on his social media page how he had been ”incredibly honoured” to take up the role.